History of Africa

Reducere. In this magical account, Janvier T. Chando brilliantly establishes the threads that made the young Thomas Sankara one of Africa's iconic leaders in...

Reducere. Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history....

Reducere. This dramatic story spans 122 years and highlights challenges faced by four generations of an initially British aristocratic family in Kenya, with ...

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Reducere. This book is the sequel to J.A. Rogers' book: From Superman to Man and is an introduction to the field of African Studies. Also published as From M...

Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.Illustrations: 3 Line ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce FentonForeword by: Graham HancockThe Geographic Origin of Modern Humans: Half a Century after the collapse of the Out...

Reducere. In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powe...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organization that represents and support...

This is the fascinating and important story of how God's Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo...

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on t...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

DescriptionThe 2018/19 Premier League season was a historic one for African players in English football. More than 130 years after Arthur Wharton b...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Susan WilliamsIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 400Publication da...

Reducere. "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, ...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslave...

This book presents a unique and multi-faceted history youth development in South Africa through the lens of a South African NGO prominent in youth ...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregat...

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In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigeno...

A new investigation into Hammarskjoeld's role in the decolonisation of Africa during the Cold War offers startling conclusions.

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given ri...

Reducere. Jack Malloch was Rhodesia's principal pioneer in aviation. He was an aviator and entrepreneur who left his mark on Rhodesia in a number of ways. He...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

Reducere. Ibn Batt ta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated to English by celebrated sch...

Reducere. Every single person occupies a point in the planet earth. Everyone belongs to a community of persons which starts with one's family and roots. This...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, published in 2006, David Wengrow provides an interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynast...

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

Reducere. This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

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Reducere. Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic...

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africa...

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Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is t...

Reducere. The Yoruba speaking group inhabits Benin and Nigeria. This pioneering investigation, published in 1894, reveals the culture, history, spiritual bel...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa, then keep reading... Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. T...

Reducere. For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per ...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Reducere. Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle...

Reducere. "Jenkins is one of America's top religious scholars." --Forbes magazineThe Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary vi...

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsAuthor(s): Philip BeaverIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 546Pub...

Reducere. The map of world Christianity has changed dramatically, with a large number of Christians living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This text is a...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy I was born in Africa sprouted into being when the author asked herself, amidst her deepest dark night of the soul in 2004, why she h...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The passive res...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has...